TYPICAL TEMPERATURES IN MY KBQs
I keep a lot of notes, and here is an example showing this past Friday's KBQ smoker internal temperatures:
Fired up this brand new virgin KBQ that I just bought, and this is what I got...
Was getting around a 20 degree span from this brand new controller.
(Twas a 200°F average for this particular meat/cook/smoke that I was "shooting" for)
ON - - - OFF
187°F to 209°F (start)
186°F to 206°F (watching)
185°F to 205°F (watching)
184°F to 204°F (watching)
183°F to 203°F (watching as it slowly dropped in cycling temperatures)
Average of these last two ON/OFF cycles was 193°F so, I bumped the thermostat up a touch.
I got...
189° to 210°F (199.5°F average)
-
At 1-1/2 hours later...
184°F to 206°F (195°F average)
So, I bumped the thermostat up a touch once again and got...
191°F to 212°F (201.5°F average)
-
The above fine tuning type adjustments are typical in my KBQ experience, where with my COS there is no way I could get even close to this type of temperature control by "hawking and tweaking" this and that in an attempt to hold temps and keep consistent smoke quality.
All the while, with the KBQ, my smoke quality is being controlled too, which took me years to master the art of fire building in my cheap offset smokers.
BTW
My very last COS is now being used to store my BBQ tools, and I smoke all of my meats in my KBQs.
I keep a lot of notes, and here is an example showing this past Friday's KBQ smoker internal temperatures:
Fired up this brand new virgin KBQ that I just bought, and this is what I got...
Was getting around a 20 degree span from this brand new controller.
(Twas a 200°F average for this particular meat/cook/smoke that I was "shooting" for)
ON - - - OFF
187°F to 209°F (start)
186°F to 206°F (watching)
185°F to 205°F (watching)
184°F to 204°F (watching)
183°F to 203°F (watching as it slowly dropped in cycling temperatures)
Average of these last two ON/OFF cycles was 193°F so, I bumped the thermostat up a touch.
I got...
189° to 210°F (199.5°F average)
-
At 1-1/2 hours later...
184°F to 206°F (195°F average)
So, I bumped the thermostat up a touch once again and got...
191°F to 212°F (201.5°F average)
-
The above fine tuning type adjustments are typical in my KBQ experience, where with my COS there is no way I could get even close to this type of temperature control by "hawking and tweaking" this and that in an attempt to hold temps and keep consistent smoke quality.
All the while, with the KBQ, my smoke quality is being controlled too, which took me years to master the art of fire building in my cheap offset smokers.
BTW
My very last COS is now being used to store my BBQ tools, and I smoke all of my meats in my KBQs.
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